Display frame



May 5, 1931.

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May 5, 1931. P. F, PAIGE E1' Al. 1,804,373

DISPLAY FRAME Filed March l. 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented May 5', 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PAUL F. PAIG-E, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, AND GEORGE H. BLOOD, OF LYNN, KMASSA- CHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO FORBES LTHOGRAPH MANUFACTURING "COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS,`A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS f 1 DISPLAY FRAME Application filed March 1,

This invention relates to display devices for supporting pictures or other sheets to be displayed. The device specifically, though not necessarily, may be one constructed of suitable sheet material, such as cardboard, itself lithographed or otherwise decorated as may be desired. An important feature of the invention is the construction of a device of this nature which may be brought into a compactv form for storage or shipment.

Our invention will be well understood by referenceto the following description of an illustrative embodiment thereof shown by way of example in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the device in use;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same with the easel support collapsed and with the picture removed; Y

Fig. 8 is a central vertical section on a somewhat larger scale illustrating the device partially folded;

Fig. 4L is a central vertical section showing the device completely folded up; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the device in use on a larger scale and as seen from the rear.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings,

the device embodies a suitable frame-like member 7 carrying at one inner edge thereof a tongue 9 adapted to lie in the opening of the frame. In the embodiment of the invention shown these parts are cut from a sinn` gle piece of cardboard a three-sided cut forming the tongue and defining a surrounding margin constituting the frame, the tongue being integrally and flexibly joined at the fourth side to one side ofthe frame. A suit-- able sheet 11 (Figs. 1 and 5) bearing a picture or other matter to be displayed may be inserted between the tongue Vand the rear of the frame. The tongue supports the pic- I .i ture pressed against the rear of the frame and the tongue itself and the entire display de vice may be supported by means of a suitable easel 13, herein shown as of the type disclosed in the patent to Trum, No. 962,932, the easel being formed of a single sheet of cardboard 1929. serial No. 343,784.

comprising a flange 15 secured to the'back of the tongue and a relatively foldable flange 17 which alternatively may lie flat in the same plane as the flange 15 and flat againsty the back of the tongue and frame, or may be folded out at substantially right angles to the` flange'15, as shown in F ig, 5,-in which position it maybe secured by the integral locking tongue 19.

To permit the frame, when the picture 11 is removed, to be folded into smaller'compass for storage or shipment, it, and preferably also the tongue 9, are arranged to fold about a transverse line 21 which inthe case of ay cardboardstructure as described may take the form of a crease or score in the material.v The arrangement is preferablysuch that the parts of the frame -7 fold together 'rearward` ly so that the picture 11, when inserted, tends to hold the same in the unfolded position. The easel 13 may be provided with a similar transverse fold line 23, the part above this line being entirely detached from the tongue which it supports and the line 28 being so related to line 21 as to permit the supported and supporting structures to fold up together in the manner illustrated in F lgs-3 ande. When thel parts are erected and the flange 17is turned out at right angles tothe flange 15, this fold line is brought into two planes and the easel can no longer bend about the same and the Vrigid support lthus providedA` supports against bending the tongue 9 and, through the picture'or other sheet 11, the fra-me 7.-y Y M AThe marginal portions of the tongue 9 may he provided with longitudinal fold lines ory n tion shown, when the picture or other sheet embodied in other specific forms without Y departing from the spirit or essential -attributes thereof, and we therefore desire the present embodiment to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive; reference being hadto the appended claims rather than to the'foregoing description to indicate the scopevof the invention.

Claims:

vl. A display device comprising a framelike member having a tongue carried by an inner edgethereof toYlie in the opening of the frame, said parts adapted to receive between them a sheet to be displayed, said member having a fold line about which it maybe folded rearwardly and a collapsible support secured to the back of the tongue and adapted when erected to support the same and through the displayed sheet to maintain erect the frame-like member. l

2. A display device comprising a framelike member having a tongue carried by `an inner edge thereofrto liein the opening. of theframe, said parts adapted to receive between them a sheet to be displayed and having a transverse fold line, Van easel secured to the tongue comprising parts adapted alternativelyto lie fiat orto be erected into relatively angular planes,said easel having a fold line permitting it when inthe lirst mentioned position to Abe folded up with said parts. A

8. A display device comprising a sheet of `material out to provide a tongue defining about it a frame-like margin, said rparts adapted to receive between them a sheet to be displayed, said parts having a transverse fold line and said `tongue having longitudinal fold lines along its edge defining strips adapted to be rearwardly deflected to Aprovide a clearance for entering said sheetto be displayed and kfor stiffeningsaid parts against flexure about the transverse fold line when erected.

4. A display'device comprising a sheet of material cut.to provide aftongue'defining about it a frame-like margin, said parts adapted to receive between them a sheet to be displayed, and a collapsible easel adapted to lie flat with said parts'and comprising a flange secured to said tongue, a flange adapted to foldoutat anangle thereto, and means Vfor locking said parts in position whereby said latter flange supports said Vtongue pressed against the displayed sheet and the latter' against the margin.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification.

PAUL F. PAIGE. GEORGE H. BLOOD. 

